Sports Round-up

So another ‘Deadline Day’ has passed us by, and despite British clubs spending only £65m this January compared to a monstrous £225m last year, there were still bounty of last minute deals to be done. Everton were busy bringing in Steven Pienaar back on loan from Spurs and Nikica Jelavic from Rangers for £6m. Spurs themselves offloaded Roman Pavlyuchenko to Locomotiv Moscow and replaced him with Louis Saha from Everton while Sebastien Bassong was loaned to Wolves and Ryan Nelsen was brought in on a free from Blackburn Rovers. QPR were the biggest spenders of the day, paying £4m for Bobby Zamora from local rivals Fulham and paying £5m for French striker Djibril Cisse from Lazio.

British round up
It was heartbreak again for Andy Murray as he went out of the Australian Open in the semi- finals to eventual winner Novak Djokovic. The Brit was on top for large parts of the match but the Serbian showed his class to win in five sets. The England cricket team returned to their superb knack of clawing defeat from the jaws of victory as they lost t the second test to Pakistan by 72 runs. Despite superb bowling displays by recalled Monty Panesar and Stuart Broad, England needed 145 on the fourth day to win but an inept batting display handed Pakistan the victory.